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24th February 2010UnclehoodAs this post is published, I will have started my long journey to visit my sister and brother-in-law, along with their month-old son, my nephew. I'm staying with them for about a week. I'll be on a train for most of the day, which is alright - when there's no disaster I quite enjoy it. Usually. Whilst I'm travelling, please enjoy this music: By the way: I've greatly expanded my French page (it's now called Wilf’s Guide to Advanced Higher French omg!) and added essays in order to help people taking Advanced Higher French. I hope someone'll use it. And I ...
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21st February 2010Don’t get me started…I wrote this when I was 15 ((My Word document of this essay was created in September 2006, although I would have written it by hand initially, some time before.)), for 4th year English. After reading a couple of newspaper columns as a class, we were told to write our own such essay under the title "Don't get me started...", about things which annoy us. Mine turned out quite well. It was good enough to be included in my Standard Grade Folio, and it remains the only piece of writing for which I have won an award ((I also got ...
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18th February 2010Feb Yah ReeNOTE: Reading this will probably be a waste of time. Hello Internets. I briefly refer you to this post which I wrote a year ago. I still don't know how I pronounce it. Someone needs to take me by surprise and make me say the word "February" before I realise it and start getting all self-conscious. We all know that's never going to happen, but if it did then I'd know. I'd really know. It's nice to see you again. How are you? I have a very sore throat (it's a bitch), but I'm not not going to mention it. No one likes ...
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11th February 2010Maiden SpeechThat's the polite way to put it; "Virgin Speech" is probably a bit too much down at the Club. First Speech would do me just fine. It's not the first speech I've ever given - it won't even be my first time speaking to the club (fourth actually) - but I'll be speaking formally at Perth Speakers Club for the first time ((It also happens to be the first time I've worked to a deadline since I left school. I've managed it well, although I did feel a few twinges of procrastination.)). I'm happy with my speech; I spent a long time ...
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10th February 2010We are a way…I saw the stars today. It wasn't the first time but that doesn't matter. I saw the Sun. Burning. Orange behind distant trees. A million cowering Earths. Hopelessly far; right there. Death. Life. I saw it. I knew. And then I saw the Plough and the Pleiades. Orion and Taurus and Mars. Minutes. Billions of years. Me. It felt good. I came inside and went to bed. "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself" - Carl Sagan.
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About Wilf's Blog
I'm a mathematician, but apart from that, I'm a fairly normal guy. I used to write a blog - this blog. I write (wrote) about whatever is on my mind. It can get quite personal sometimes.
